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  1. Fortean phenomena.
    • 2000, Bob Rickard and John Michell, Unexplained Phenomena: A Rough Guide Special, ISBN 978-1-858-28589-4, page 367:
      A monthly “Journal of Strange Phenomena”, founded in 1973 as a primary forum for news, discussion, links and archives to core and fringe forteana.

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Mon May 4 18:21:25 2009

Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena.

Jerome Clark writes that Fort was "essentially a satirist hugely skeptical of human beings' – especially scientists' – claims to ultimate knowledge". Clark describes Fort's writing style as a "distinctive blend of mocking humor, penetrating insight, and calculated outrageousness".

Writer Colin Wilson describes Fort as "a patron of cranks" and also argues that running through Fort's work is "the feeling that no matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels."

Fort's books sold well and remain in print. Today, the terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are used to characterise various anomalous phenomena.

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Many consider Fort the father of modern paranormalism due to his interest in odd phenomena and his attitudes toward 19th century Spiritualism and scientific dogma.

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